an enzyme that catalyses the interconversion of epimers
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epimerase
This and other suggestions for annotation of 4-epimerase genes will facilitate annotation.
Monica M. Cunneen, Bin Liu, Lei Wang, Peter R. Reeves 2013, 'Biosynthesis of UDP-GlcNAc, UndPP-GlcNAc and UDP-GlcNAcA Involves Three Easily Distinguished4-Epimerase Enzymes, Gne, Gnu and GnaB', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0067646. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The 2-epimerase was used to design a small-molecule inhibitor, epimerox.
Raymond Schuch, Adam J. Pelzek, Assaf Raz, Chad W. Euler, Patricia A. Ryan, BenjaminY. Winer, Andrew Farnsworth, Shyam S. Bhaskaran, C. Erec Stebbins, Yong Xu, AdrienneClifford, David J. Bearss, Hariprasad Vankayalapati, Allan R. Goldberg, Vincent A.Fischetti 2013, 'Use of a Bacteriophage Lysin to Identify a Novel Target for Antimicrobial Development',PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0060754. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The 4-epimerase was subsequently expressed and purified.
Phillipp Mueller, Rahul Gauttam, Nadja Raab, René Handrick, Claudia Wahl, SebastianLeptihn, Michael Zorn, Michaela Kussmaul, Marianne Scheffold, Bernhard Eikmanns, LotharElling, Sabine Gaisser 2018, 'High level in vivo mucin-type glycosylation in Escherichia coli', Microbial Cell Factorieshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12934-018-1013-9. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Recently, the novel enzymes l-hydroxyproline epimerase and d-hydroxyproline dehydrogenasewere isolated from bacteria.
Hiroaki Sakamoto, Kazuya Watanabe, Ayako Koto, Gaku Koizumi, Takenori Satomura, SeiyaWatanabe, Shin-ichiro Suye 2015, 'A bienzyme electrochemical biosensor for the detection of collagen l-hydroxyproline',Sensing and Bio-Sensing Researchhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214180415000100. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)